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2013-14: Basketball’s Second Season Begins
Seventeen teams with losing records and three .500 squads made the San Diego Section playoffs. It doesn’t look as ridiculous as in previous years. Pairings announced Saturday promise good games, even in early rounds, especially considering size of brackets and number of divisions. Only in Division II is there virtual mediocrity. Seven of the eight, […]
Read More1960: For Better or (Mostly) Worse
San Diego County was “free” of the giant Southern Section and on its own, twenty-eight schools strong. The formation of the local CIF section pleased administrators and assorted education honchos who wielded the sharp end of the stick. Coaches and most fans were ambivalent. The great competition against Northern schools and the building excitement of […]
Read More2013-14: Playoff Seeding and Pairings Next
Selection Saturday is just five days away. League play wraps up this week, but all eyes are on the postseason and the ensuing rounds that lead to the state championships in Sacramento next month. Seedings and pairings for the San Diego Section playoffs, to be waged in 5 divisions, will come out of Section commissioner […]
Read More1916: The Legendary Hilltoppers
The 12-0 season, Southern California championship, and declaration as national champions was just the beginning for coach Clarence (Nibs) Price and many of the San Diego High Hilltoppers. Price left the school after the 1917-18 school year and made his way back to Price’s alma mater, the University of California at Berkeley, joining the staff of head […]
Read More2014: Coaching Legend Walt Harvey, 95
Walt Harvey, whose firm and folksy touch resonated with generations of San Diego-area athletes and future coaches, passed away Feb. 7 at age 95. A memorial will be held at noon Saturday, Feb. 22, at La Vida Real, where Harvey resided the last several years. La Vida Real is located at 11588 Via Rancho San […]
Read More1916-2013: Did Hilltoppers Forfeit to Drillers?
It was a moot point for 97 years. But when Bakersfield defeated Loomis Del Oro, 56-26, in the State Division I championship this season an old dispute surfaced. Officially the title was Bakersfield’s seventh, along with years of 1920, ’21, ’22, ’23, ’25, and ’27. State championships were not played from 1928-2005. Bakersfield historians claim […]
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